Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 151
"Why there's Need!" replies his wife with a bitter laugh. "
Who acts: Need, wife · What happens: be, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Need, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replies | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 's | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 's | expl |
| 4 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replies | advcl |
| 5 | Need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 's | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Need | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 's | punct |
| 8 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replies | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 laugh | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 laugh | det |
| 13 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 laugh | amod |
| 14 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replies | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replies | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Need | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | present | Need's wife | with a bitter laugh | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with laugh=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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